AARP Community Challengegrants have funded community gardens where residents are asked to plant, weed and water the plants.
In return, the harvesters and the hungry can enjoy fresh produce.
The nonprofitFriends of Refugeesstocked the pantries with 1,000 pounds of food.
The raised-bed planters were installed in community gardens.
(The community has two freeways cutting through it.
In fact, the one-acre farm is located on top of a Caltrain tunnel.
The areas poverty level was double the citywide average.)
The garden has since broadened its mission to serve the communitys wider ethnic and intergenerational diversity.
AARP Community Challenge funds helped create waist-high, raised-bed planters.
Shade trees and benches were added to better serve the gardens older volunteers and people with disabilities.
